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IEEE TEC: Special Issue on Analysis and Design of Representationsand Operators
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IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Special Issue on
Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~dirk/adoro/cfp.html
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Successful and efficient use of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends on
the choice of the problem representation and the variation operators.
These choices cannot be made independently of each other. The question
whether a certain representation leads to better performing EAs than an
alternative representation, can only be answered when the operators
applied are taken into consideration. The reverse is also true: deciding
between alternative operators is only meaningful in the context of a
given representation. Clearly, this choice is problem-dependent, but
despite the importance of choosing proper representation-operator
combinations on the performance of EAs, little general applicable theory
and knowledge is available to help understanding and guiding the
construction of high-quality representations and operators for solving
problems successfully and efficiently with EAs.
The aim of the special issue is to provide a clear view of the
state-of-the-art in the analysis and design of representations and
operators. We are therefore soliciting papers that discuss the influence
and importance of a proper choice of representations and operators for
EA design, ranging from theoretical analysis to relevant and interesting
real-life applications.
TOPICS:
- Theoretical and empirical properties of representations and/or operators
- Interference between representations and operators
- Predictive performance measures for evaluating representation and
operator choices
- Practical guidelines to design representation/operator combinations
for a particular problem
- Redundant versus non-redundant problem representations
- High-locality versus low-locality representations
- Search space bias of representations and operators
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline: November 30, 2004
- Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2005
- Delivery of final version: July 31, 2005
- Expected publication: February, 2006
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GUEST EDITORS
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Franz Rothlauf
University of Mannheim, Germany
http://www.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/wifo1/team/rothlauf
rothlaufATuni-mannheim.de
Dirk Thierens
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
http://www.cs.uu.nl/staff/dirk.html
dirk.thierensATcs.uu.nl
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